did you realise that every single one is 3h long and in directors cut even longer?

I just watched the first one and I was aprox 2.5 hours.
But yes the point is a marathon of all the movies would take 12 hours. I'm not that patient

The hobbit is way too good to be condensed into one movie, and should be made into two, but I was very upset when I learned that they were making it into three I was very upset. I also learned that they were going to add a female elf that wasn’t in the book. (I remember seeing an article on Yahoo about some actress playing an elf, and I could not remember that elf, and was afraid that I had forgotten the hobbit, and then read that she wasn’t in the book)
Anyway, I saw these the other day and knew that I was just like this, and even watched the movie, despite telling my self that I wasn’t going to watch it.

I *think* the third one is going to be some (maybe all?) new material that helps bridge the gap between the end of the hobbit and the beginning of lord of the rings.

I wonder if in the future, they'll do like Star Wars and rename LOTR series as The Hobbit 4, 5 and 6? That would suck

I wonder if in the future, they'll do like Star Wars and rename LOTR series as The Hobbit 4, 5 and 6? That would suck

Actually, the first Star Wars was originally called Episode IV (though they didn't show "Episode IV: A New Hope" in the movie's title sequence until the movie's rerelease before Episode V).

Whoops, I mixed up the details a little, but Episode V and Episode VI were always called that and the Episode IV rerelease came after Episode V. Either way, they were never 1, 2, and 3.

It was referred to as episode V
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